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IPPS Archive

The International Project for a Participatory
Society (IPPS)
was a group of activists, writers, media producers, and others who got together in hopes of creating lasting organization, all committed
to the basic principles and values of solidarity,
diversity, equity, self management. Our mandate is to generate, promote, and
support vision and strategy for attaining a participatory society.

This page details
our definition via the links to the left, also presents links below for some content regarding social change
vision and strategy that we generated or that we feel special regard for. Please also see the Z Sessions Site. It was a gathering at the Z residence where about forty people discussed matters of vision and strategy - and includes a number of session papers...as noted below, as well..

Politics 

Shalom:
Visionary Politics

Adamovsky:
Autonomous Politics

Grubacic:
Power and Revolution

Shalom: ParPolity


Grubacic/Graeber: Anarchism...

Grubacic: Anarchism
Chomsky: Notes
on Anarchism

Gender/Kinship

Peters: Kinship Vision
Peters: Radical Parenting

Segal: Hopes for Women's Liberation

Sargent: What Do Women
Want?

Waldemar: Family Life

Dominick: Liberating Youth

Culture/Community

Podur:
Race, Culture, and Leftists

Podur:
Culture Vision One /
Two

Podur: Life After Racism
Anderson: Immigration

Daily Life

Wetzel: Self-Managed Cities
Albert: Education Vision
Borkow: Education
Sargent:
Press the Press

Huber: Education
Dor & Bond: Health
Martinez: Mental Health
Peters:
Parenting in a Vulgar Age

Allen
et. al.: Youth, Parenting...

Ortellado: Cyber Property
Bond: Housing
Wetzel: The City
Dominick: Youth And The
Left

Five IPPS Questions

Albert: Five Questions...
Bond: Five Questions...
Evans: Five Questions...
Hartmann: Five Questions...
Peters: Five Questions...
Rai: Five Questions...
Wetzel: Five Questions...
Wilpert: Five Questions...
Spannos: Five Questions...

Z Sessions Essays

Adamovsky: Autonomous Politics
Albert: Building A Pareconish Movement
Brecher: Global People's Law?
Grubacic: Power and Revolution
Martí: Free Information, Free Software & Revolution
Peters: Kinship Vision
Podur: Race, Culture, & Leftists
Rai: World Upside Down
Shalom: Visionary Politics
Spannos: World Without War
Trigona: Self-Management in Argentina
Wetzel: Workers' Liberation
Wilpert: Linking Post-Capitalist Alternatives

 

Economics/Parecon

Participatory Economics Site
Albert:
Building A Pareconish Movement

Albert: Solidarity Economy or Parecon
Spannos: Parecon Organizing
Albert: Why Parecon?
Albert: Parecon
Reintjas: Solidarity Economy
Capitalism
and Parecon

Raptis: Parecon
Podur Interviews Albert
Wetzel: Self Emancipation
Burrows: Alternative to Capitalism?
Dominick: Parecon, Anarchy, Politics
Burrows: Parecon in
Theory and Practice

Dominick: From Here to Parecon
Burrows: Work After Capitalism
Albert: What Do We Want
Much More...

Case Studies

Wetzel: Spanish Revolution

Wilpert: Venezuela
Grubacic:
Parecon in the Balkans?

Adamovsky:
Argentina and Parecon

Trigona:
Self-Management in Argentina

International Relations

Spannos: World Without War
Brecher:
Global People’s Law?

Rai:
World Upside Down

Monbiot: Age of Consent
Albert:
Venezuela's Path

Albert:
Argentine Factories

Strategy/Vision Generally

Wainwright: Imagine no leaders
Trigona:
Self-Management in Argentina

Martí:
Free Software & Revolution

Wilpert:
Linking Post-Capitalist Alts

Albert:
Participatory Society


Albert: Help Me Out
/
Problem or
Solution


Grubacic: Civil or Participatory Society

Adamovsky: Argentina and Parecon

Grubacic: European Trends

Podur: To a (Social Democratic) Youth

Peters: The Class Divide

Peters:
Courting the "Middle Class"

Wilpert:
Linking Post-Capitalist Alts

Albert: From Despair to Revolution

Adamovsky: Global Movement

Grubacic: Towards Another Anarchism

Wetzel: Anarcho Syndicalism

Peters: 5 Guidelines for Organizing

Wainwright: The Importance of the Local

Chomsky: Responsibility of the Intellectual

Dominick:
From Here to Parecon

Mission Statement

The International Project for a Participatory Society (IPPS) is a group of people concerned with inspiring, facilitating, and supporting efforts to develop, share, and promote vision and strategy for attaining a new participatory society.

IPPS stands for a classless economy based on self-management and equality, for democratic and participatory politics, and for the elimination of patriarchy, racism, and all other hierarchies and oppressions.

IPPS seeks to elaborate a vision of a participatory society in order to demonstrate that there is an alternative to current race, gender, political, environmental, and other injustices.

Structure

Overarching policy decisions on editorial priorities, financial decisions, and new members will be made in annual meetings with all group members welcome to participate either live or online.

Voting in yearly policy meetings will be most often by majority vote with attention to a strong minority. Deviations will respect the concept of self management - decision making input in proportion as one is affected by issues at stake. Individual task forces will set up their own participatory decision-making process.

As a basic component of membership in IPPS, all members are encouraged to be involved in the creation of vision and strategy through participation in autonomous “editorial threesomes” (or other combinations, or singly) as people choose. By autonomous we mean as long as they apply the general principles and values of our mission statement.

-> by group members (where possible in aforementioned threesomes)

-> commissioned and solicited by threesomes

-> from unsolicited submissions that will be distributed somewhat equally among threesomes for approval
Other activities will be overseen by appropriate task forces constructed for the purposes at hand.

Initial Agenda

At Woods Hole Massachusetts, on June 6, 2006, we designated the June 2006 Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy gathering as the founding and first policy meeting of the International Project for a Participatory Society. At this June meeting we decided our mission statement, name, project definition, basic principles/values, a date for the next policy meeting--in Atlanta at the U.S. Social Forum from June 27-July1 (possible online hookup for those who can’t be there)--and to present a Participatory Society program (building on the Life After Capitalism experience) at the Atlanta events.

We decided to focus on the following in the next six months:

-> Creating a web site for public communications, etc.
Responsibility: Evan Henshaw Plath, Michael Albert, Justin Podur

-> Creating content for the IPPS website
Responsibility: All members organized into editorial threesomes or other combinations, as well as operating singly. Those who presented vision/strategy papers at ZSVS could improve on it; others who didn’t make presentations could do so; still others could cover new areas of concern such as law, education, environment, etc.

Some threesomes created at the June meeting:

Law: Brecher, Sitrin, Ceric
South Asian: Kolhatkar, Podur, Mahajan
Education: Grubacic, LeJeune, Baillargeon
Kinship/ParSociety: Sargent, Ponniah, Peters

-> Creating a blog system for members (public) dialog and debate
Responsibility: Justin Podur, Brian Dominick

-> Researching experiments in visionary institutional building
Responsibility: Sonali Kolhatkar, Jamie LeJeune, Tamara Vukov, Tom Wetzel, Marie Trigona, Milan Rai, Marina Sitrin,
Irina Ceric, Andrej Grubaci, Chris Spannos, Normand Baillargeon

-> Creating an internal newsletter
Responsibility: Marie Trigona, Andy Dunn, Lydia Sargent

-> Develop tools to aid experiments in creating participatory society institutions
Responsibility: Andrej Grubacic, Chris Spannos, Sean Gonzalves, Evan Henshaw Plath, Jamie LeJeune, Chantal Santerre

-> Develop program for the Atlanta Social Forum
Responsibility: Kendra Fehrer, Jamie LeJeune, Thomas Ponniah, Lydia Sargent, Michael Albert

-> Creating a speakers bureau for members
Responsibility: Cynthia Peters, Steve Shalom, Chris Spannos, Sean Gonzalves

-> Assisting members with publishing their work
Responsibility: Ezequiel Adamovsky, Sonali Kolhatkar, Jeremy Brecher

-> Establish means for dealing with internal disputes, conflicts, errors, etc.
Responsibility: Irina Ceric, Justin Podur, Milan Rai, Mark Evans, Kendra Fehrer

Who We Are

Ezequiel
Adamovsky
 - Argentina

Michael Albert - U.S.

Bridgit
Anderson
- Great Britain

Jessica
Azulay
  - U.S.

Normand Baillargeon -
Canada

Elaine
Bernard
- U.S.

Peter Bohmer - U.S.
Patrick Bond - South
Africa

Jeremy Brecher  -
U.S.

Dennis Brutus - South Africa

Irina Ceric - Serbia/Canada

Daniel Chavez - Netherlands

Noam Chomsky -
U.S.

Carol Delgado - Venezuela

Brian
Dominick
  - U.S.

Mark Evans - England

Kendra Fehrer - U.S.

Susan George - France
Jonah Gindin - Canada
Sean Gonsalves -
U.S.

Andrej Grubacic -
Serbia/U.S.

Serge Halimi - France
Elizabeth Hartman- U.S.

John Hepburn - Australia

Pervez Hoodhboy -
Pakistan

Robert Jensen - U.S.Ria Julien - Trinidad/U.S.

Naomi Klein - Canada

Sonali Kolhatkar - India/U.S.

Jamie LeJeune - U.S.

Rahul Mahajan  - U.S.

Mandisi Majavu -
South Africa

Felipe Pérez Martí - Venezuela

Pablo Ortellado - Brazil

Ilan Pappe - Israel

Cynthia Peters  -
U.S.

John Pilger - Great Britain

Evan Henshaw Plath - U.S.
Justin
Podur
 - India/Canada

Thomas Ponniah - U.S.
Vijay Prashad - U.S.

Milan Rai - Britain

Carola Reintjes - Spain

Manuel Rozental - Colombia

Chantel Santerre - Canada
Lydia
Sargent - U.S.

Steve Shalom  -
U.S.

Devinder Sharma -
India
Vandana Shiva - India

Marina Sitrin  - U.S.

Chris Spannos - Canada

Marie Trigona -
Argentina

Tamara Vukov - Canada

Harsha Walia - India/Canada

Hilary Wainwright - Great
Britain

Tom Wetzel - U.S.

Greg Wilpert - Venezuela

Tim Wise - U.S.

America Vera Zavala - Sweden

Howard Zinn - U.S.

 




Info, Networking, Research

Key aspects of IPPS activities are generating and disseminating
information that bears on vision and strategy - whether it is new ideas, criitical
accounts, historical reviews, surveys of projects, etc. - and creating contacts and
lasting ties among people around the world concerned with such matters.

All members participate in such work in diverse ways including writing, speaking,
hosting events and other members, working with organizations, etc. Reports, analyses,
vision, strategy, etc. appear in essay form on this site. Discussions occur via our
blog system. Outreach occurs via speaking engagements, publishing, this web site,
face to face organizing, etc.

As we are first forming, there isn't much to report at the moment...more later...

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